Sinister Wisdom: Panel

Darla Tejada is a long time reader and emerging writer based in Naarm. She is currently undertaking graduate studies in English and her favourite activities include reading obscure queer fiction and taking long aimless walks. You can read her works in publications like Archer, More than Melanin and KYD.

Pelaya Arapakis is a cultural worker, musician and writer based in Naarm.

Joan Nestle is an 84 year old fem lesbian, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, (1974-) author and editor of ten books on lesbian, queer culture and literature. She is also a board member of Sinister Wisdom.

Julie R. Enszer, PhD, is the author of five poetry collections, including The Pinko Commie Dyke with illustrations by Isabel Paul (Indolent Books, 2024), and editor of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture, Fire-Rimmed Eden: Selected Poems by Lynn Lonidier, The Complete Works of Pat Parker, and Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989. Enszer publishes Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal. More at www.JulieREnszer.com.

Yasmin Tambiah, of Sinhalese and Tamil descent, grew up in Sri Lanka. Trained as a European medievalist, she subsequently researched sexuality and law in postcolonial states, and gender and militarization. Currently working in research management in Australia, Yasmin has also lived in the USA, with stints in Trinidad, India, England and Spain. Her award-winning creative writing has appeared in ‘Nethra’, ‘Conditions’, ‘Sinister Wisdom’ and ‘ZineWest’, and in ‘The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction’ (1999); ‘Celebrating Sri Lankan Women’s English Writing: 1948-2000’ (2002); and ‘Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas’ (2023).